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Vocational Qualifications Day

EDM number 1702 in 2007-08, proposed by Gordon Marsden on 04/06/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Adult education, Further education and Training.

That this House welcomes the first Vocational Qualifications (VQ) Day on 23rd July 2008 to celebrate vocational success; congratulates Edge, the education foundation, and other members of the Further Education Reputation Strategy Group and the wider vocational qualifications community on this initiative; recognises the millions of people who take a vocational qualification every year; believes such qualifications lead onto further vocational study or university and better jobs; and welcomes that for the first time VQ Day will acknowledge this success with the national day of celebration.

This motion has been signed by a total of 65 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Gordon Marsden04/06/2008Blackpool SouthLabourProposed
Barry Sheerman04/06/2008HuddersfieldLabourSeconded
Tim Boswell04/06/2008DaventryConservativeSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins05/06/2008Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Andrew George05/06/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Lynne Jones05/06/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn05/06/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Drew05/06/2008StroudLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty06/06/2008Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Stephen Williams06/06/2008Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Durkan06/06/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Andrew Dismore06/06/2008HendonLabourSigned
Graham Brady06/06/2008Altrincham and Sale WestConservativeSigned
Michael Jabez Foster09/06/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Phil Willis09/06/2008Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams09/06/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Mike Hancock09/06/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Meale09/06/2008MansfieldLabourSigned
David Lepper09/06/2008Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson09/06/2008Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle09/06/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
Bob Russell09/06/2008ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed10/06/2008South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter10/06/2008CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Charles Walker10/06/2008BroxbourneConservativeSigned
Desmond Turner10/06/2008Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Hywel Francis10/06/2008AberavonLabourSigned
Colin Burgon10/06/2008ElmetLabourSigned
Annette Brooke10/06/2008Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Albert Owen10/06/2008Ynys MLabourSigned
Bill Olner10/06/2008NuneatonLabourSigned
Marsha Singh10/06/2008Bradford WestLabourSigned
Janet Dean11/06/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Graham Allen11/06/2008Nottingham NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis11/06/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Alan Simpson11/06/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Andrew Miller11/06/2008Ellesmere Port and NestonLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd11/06/2008Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Joan Humble11/06/2008Blackpool North and FleetwoodLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne11/06/2008Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins12/06/2008TamworthLabourSigned
David Laws12/06/2008YeovilLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Dobbin12/06/2008Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Roberta Blackman-Woods12/06/2008City of DurhamLabourSigned
Mark Williams13/06/2008CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Doug Naysmith16/06/2008Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Damian Green16/06/2008AshfordConservativeSigned
David Blunkett16/06/2008Sheffield, BrightsideLabourSigned
Paul Rowen16/06/2008RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Alasdair McDonnell17/06/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
David Kidney17/06/2008StaffordLabourSigned
Dan Rogerson18/06/2008North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Clive Efford19/06/2008ElthamLabourSigned
Ann Cryer20/06/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
John McDonnell23/06/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Eric Illsley26/06/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Paul Truswell26/06/2008PudseyLabourSigned
Bill Etherington02/07/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Andy Slaughter17/07/2008Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's BushLabourSigned
David Willetts21/07/2008HavantConservativeSigned
Angela Watkinson22/07/2008UpminsterConservativeSigned
Rob Wilson22/07/2008Reading EastConservativeSigned
Eleanor Laing06/10/2008Epping ForestConservativeSigned
David Mundell24/11/2008Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and TweeddaleConservativeSigned
Jon TrickettUnknownWithdrawn

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